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Meanings of unsuitable in English

Not suitable for the situation.

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Not capable of being applied.

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Examples for "inapplicable"
1
In the present instance I am afraid your rule is inapplicable.
The Trampling of the Lilies
2
Previous core needle biopsies were useless or inapplicable in all patients.
Pubmed
3
If it grows, the method of fixed alternatives must be inapplicable to it.
Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher
4
The Kiint found a solution, the Laymil, too -for all it's inapplicable.
The Naked God
5
Bring home no foreign fancies which are inapplicable to our state of society.
Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made

Not worthy of being chosen (especially as a spouse)

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Unsuitable.

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Usage of unsuitable in English
1
Property and casualty companies said the new standard is unsuitable for them.
Reuters
2
Property and casualty companies complained the new standard is unsuitable for them.
Reuters
3
And as soon as he did, he saw Rinaldo was quite unsuitable.
The Magicians of Caprona
4
He said he felt it was unsuitable for families to live at.
Radio NZ
5
Therefore the Law made unsuitable provision for the welfare of the people.
Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) / From the Com...
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Not all children who watch unsuitable and violent videos turn into murderers.
The Irish Times
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Sometimes, a calm prevails; sometimes, the thread catches at an unsuitable point.
The Life of the Spider
8
In his marrying such a woman, therefore, there would be nothing unsuitable.
Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters
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Worse still, we are warned that unsuitable dressing is a pathological state.
The Guardian
10
An excellent career in many respects, but unsuitable for you and me.
Psmith in the City
11
He concluded that she was unsuitable for the purpose of defending Salander.
The girl who kicked the hornet's nest
12
Perhaps they might have found the lodgings unsuitable and have moved elsewhere.
Clara Hopgood
13
I am not employed by Monarch to screen out the obviously unsuitable.
The Demolished Man
14
The stage alone remains under a censorship of a grotesquely unsuitable kind.
The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet
15
The spirit of freedom that prevailed there was unsuitable to his constitution.
Breaking Away; or, The Fortunes of a Student
16
A club-type weapon sounds like a rather unsuitable weapon for an assassin.
Wired
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Ireland
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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